How Long to Read Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions

How Long Does it Take to Read Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions by Anders Kaliff

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everything was dependent upon the rain. Rainmaking as a ritual practice has disappeared and ancestral propitiations are declining, while, at the same time, Christianity is spreading and witchcraft and witch killings are increasing. Although Christianity as a religion may provide answers and hopes for life after death, the religion provides few solutions in the here and now when it comes to poverty and suffering; problems and challenges that have to be solved. Witchcraft, on the other hand, does, or is believed to do so – and the increase in witchcraft is analysed in relation to the impacts of more than a century of globalisation from the missionaries and colonizers onwards. With the declining ancestral tradition, witchcraft and Christianity as religious practices supplement each other in the ways they are believed to work in providing answers, solutions or divine interferences in different realms; this world and the Otherworld. Offering an approach going beyond structural functionalism on different premises, the book’s focus on religion at work will facilitate new understandings of how to study religion as it is perceived and believed in practice.

How long is Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions?

Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions by Anders Kaliff is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions aloud.

What Reading Level is Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions?

Religion at Work in Globalised Traditions is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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